Wikipedia:Requests for page protection
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Before requesting, read the protection policy. Full protection is used to stop edit warring between multiple users or to prevent vandalism to high-risk templates; semi-protection and pending changes are usually used to prevent IP and new user vandalism (see the rough guide to semi-protection); and move protection is used to stop pagemove revert wars. Extended confirmed protection is used where semi-protection has proved insufficient (see the rough guide to extended confirmed protection) After a page has been protected, it is listed in the page history and logs with a short rationale, and the article is listed on Special:Protectedpages. In the case of full protection due to edit warring, admins should not revert to specific versions of the page, except to get rid of obvious vandalism.
Request protection of a page, or increasing the protection level
Request unprotection of a page, or reducing the protection level
Request a specific edit to a protected page
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Current requests for increase in protection level
Place requests for new or upgrading of article protection, upload protection, or create protection at the BOTTOM of this section. Check the archive of fulfilled and denied requests or, failing that, the page history if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.
Reason: Persistent vandalism, requesting autoconfirmed protection Ghebreigzabhier | ገብረግዛብሄር | Ⲅⲉⲃⲣⲉⲓⲅⲍⲁⲃⲓⲉⲣ | عبد المسيح 01:58, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Will leave CTOPS notice on talk page per BLPGROUP. Daniel Case (talk) 04:52, 15 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent vandalism from IP accounts. Ayaltimo (talk) 05:22, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent multiple IP vandalism, most re: Gulf of Mexico vs America. BilCat (talk) 06:28, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Niasoh ❯❯❯ Wanna chat? 13:51, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Highly Visible Page, no need to move. DisneyGuy744 (talk) 14:02, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
- Is there somesort of problem here? Moxy🍁 16:43, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – WP:ARBPIA. Loafiewa (talk) 14:27, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite create protection: Repeatedly recreated – Per the consensus at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Moeed Pirzada (2nd nomination). Repeated creations by autoconfirmed SPAs. Badbluebus (talk) 14:35, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
- Extended confirmed protected indefinitely. Sdrqaz (talk) 01:16, 15 February 2025 (UTC)
- Automated comment: @Sdrqaz: One or more pages in this request have not been protected.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 01:30, 15 February 2025 (UTC)
- Creation protected indefinitely.? Sdrqaz (talk) 01:56, 15 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent promo additions by IPs and by a COI-declared editor. See history. Janhrach (talk) 15:49, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Lots of partisan editing. Examples of weasel words throughout. Reads more like an argument for it at times rather than an explanation of it. With the theory arguably being tested in real life fight now, I can imagine this page could use some protection for a while. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 8.9.92.90 (talk) 20:43, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – WP:Contentious topics/Kurds and Kurdistan. HurricaneEdgar 00:21, 15 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Entranced98 (talk) 01:22, 15 February 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Sdrqaz (talk) 01:56, 15 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection One unregistered editor has been IP hopping over the last three weeks attempting to force their changes with no explanation. In doing so, they are changing specific dates in a section header to a more vague description. This is the only change the editor makes through all of the IP addresses, making it seem purely antagonistic. NJZombie (talk) 01:41, 15 February 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – User:Mastkodont keeps on IP-hopping. Requesting Indef semi as he/she keeps on vandalizing this page now for months. Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 03:00, 15 February 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP vandalism resumed as soon as protection expired. Jfire (talk) 03:54, 15 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – It appears that there is an individual using several IP addresses to regularly target this page over the course of the last 3 months. Alxeedo TALK 03:54, 15 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – IPs and non-IP edit-warring over appropriateness of awards inclusion. Should probably be locked and reverted to stable version until Talk page discussion has resolved. DonIago (talk) 04:42, 15 February 2025 (UTC)
Current requests for reduction in protection level
Before posting, first discuss with the protecting admin on their talk page. Post below only if you receive no reply.
- To find out the username of the admin who protected the page, click on "history" at the top of the page, then click on "View logs for this page," which is under the title of the page. The protecting admin is the username in blue before the words "protected", "changed protection level" or "pending changes". If there are a number of entries on the log page, you might find it easier to select "Protection log" or "Pending changes log" from the dropdown menu in the blue box.
- Requests to downgrade full protection to template protection on templates and modules can be directed straight here; you do not need to ask the protecting admin first.
- Requests for removing create protection on redlinked articles are generally assisted by having a draft version of the intended article prepared beforehand.
- If you want to make spelling corrections or add uncontroversial information to a protected page, please add {{Edit fully-protected}} to the article's talk page, along with an explanation of what you want to add to the page. If the talk page is protected, please use the section below.
Check the archives if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.
No protection: No longer necessary. 1250metersdeep (talk) 17:33, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
- Why is it no longer necessary? Please expand your rationale. — Malcolmxl5 (talk) 21:30, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: This page is protected just because some other article with Loco in its title that is completely unrelated to the song keeps getting recreated. I would like to request the protection for this page to be lifted so that it would be possible for me to create an article on the Netón Vega song "Loco". I opened an edit request for this page two weeks ago but it was disregarded. MC-123 (talk) 03:38, 15 February 2025 (UTC)
Current requests for edits to a protected page
Please request an edit directly on the protected page's talk page before posting here
Ideally, requests should be made on the article talk page rather than here.
- Unless the talk page itself is protected, you may instead add the appropriate template among
{{Edit protected}},{{Edit template-protected}},{{Edit extended-protected}}, or{{Edit semi-protected}}to the article's talk page if you would like to make a change rather than requesting it here. Doing so will automatically place the page in the appropriate category for the request to be reviewed. - Where requests are made due to the editor having a conflict of interest (COI; see Wikipedia:Suggestions for COI compliance), the
{{Edit COI}}template should be used. - Requests to move move-protected pages should be made at Wikipedia:Requested moves, not here.
- If the discussion page and the article are both protected preventing you from making an edit request, this page is the right place to make that request. Please see the top of this page for instructions on how to post requests.
- This page is not for continuing or starting discussions regarding content should both an article and its discussion page be protected. Please make a request only if you have a specific edit you wish to make.
To change the political position to center left Bergur181211 (talk) 22:56, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
Not done see Talk:Alliance 90/The Greens#RFC for political positions charlotte 👸♥ 03:59, 15 February 2025 (UTC)
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.